Spring Fling CT Layouts and a Freebie!

I have some very talented ladies for CT members, and they are all at various experience levels so you can see all sorts of layout possibilities... We will meet them more in depth in another post.

Click on their name to be taken to their blogs. Don't forget to leave them some love!

Belinda did two!


Tara
Sarah

Charmaine used the original version of the kit to make this STUNNING layout.
Ryan also used the original kit for this layout.
And I have another freebie for you! I just made it today and I liked it so much I am adding it to the kit! But you get it today for free! Get it while you can though, the links come down on Friday.
Freebie link expired. You can buy the whole kit here.

Alton's Spring Has a Brand New Name!

I have completely re-done my first kit! It is now full sized with 19 papers and 30 elements!



So you might have noticed, my kit preview now has a GingerScraps label on it. :) Starting on Friday, April 3rd, I will be selling at Gingerscraps! Ginger has gathered a wonderful new group of designers, and we all have some great kits for you.

I can hear the grumbling now. "There go the great freebies!"

That's not true. Because with EVERY kit release that I do, I will be giving away a mini-kit freebie and a chance to win the WHOLE kit for FREE!

All you have to do it download the mini, make a layout with it, and e-mail me or comment with a link to your layout using the mini. Then on Sunday night, I will choose a winner. Your layouts will also be posted on my blog if you send them to me. :)

Would you like a freebie? I have one for you before you can even buy the kit!

Don't forget to e-mail me or comment with a link to your layouts. One lucky person will win two of my kits to celebrate the grand opening!

Click on the freebie preview to download from 4shared.

Also, a new round of Brownie Scraps Design training has begun, so that means 5 weeks of freebies! WHOOT!

Tomorrow, I will show you what my creative team did with the re-do.

Come back every day this week... There are going to be some FABULOUS freebies this week. :) PLEASE PLEASE comment and let me know what you think if you download. :)

The Soldier and The Soldier's Wife

Ginger has made the most awesome kit. Whether you yourself have been in the military, your spouse, son or daughter, or other family member these are the kits for you. (Click on each kit preview to be taken to the store.)

The Soldier
The Soldier's Wife
Here is my layout. This is my youngest brother Robert. He was deployed to Iraq for 6 months. He is normally in the Air Force, but they cross trained him, and he served with the Army there.
The little picture in the layout is when he came home last May.

They're $5.00 each, or $8.00 if you buy them together. There just might be a freebie on the blog....

Last day for my CT call!

I know it is early in my design career to be having a CT call, but I am going to need a CT very soon, so here is the call!




Please send me your applications! You can click the email me lady bug under my header to send your application.

I've had some great applications already, but I just want to make sure no one forgets! Send your applications to J.Grahamlikethecracker@gmail.com

Spring is in the Air Quick Page

Here is another freebie for you! I made a quick page out of my Spring is the Air layout.

It will only be available until Sunday. So get it while you can! Click on the preview to download from 4shared.

Don't forget, you can get this whole kit free just be doing 4 challenges in the Gingerscscraps forum!

Now at Gingerscraps!

You can get this gorgeous kit at Gingerscraps for FREE if you participate in four forum Challenges.
Here is my layout:

Happy Birthday AMBER!

Amber is a quarter of a century old and she is having a ...
In addition to the great savings, everyone who makes a purchase during the week - from now through Saturday - will be entered into a drawing to win a Gift Certificate to the Stolen Moments store, as well as a personalized mini kit designed by Stolen Moments. So be sure to stop by!

Also, Sarah got her portion of the blog train fixed... so now you can complete your set! Go to her blog here.

What elements are important to you?

As you know, I have started designing. I want to make good kits that will appeal to a wide variety of people, and I am wondering; what elements are important to you? When you buy or download a scrapbooking kit, what elements do you look for? What are MUST HAVES in a kit for you?

Alpha Remix ABC Book Blog Train!

In celebration of Amber's birthday, we her CT decided to gift all of you with an ABC book with Amber's fabulous Alphabet Remix Kit.

I am the first stop on the blog train... here are your other stops!

Sarah - http://iamsimplysarah.blogspot.com/ (ETA Sarah has conquered her digital demons and her portion is now available.)
Nicole - http://digi-designs.blogspot.com/
Kathy - http://thelatestscooptoo.blogspot.com/
Lori - http://scrappinwithlori.blogspot.com/
Jewelle - http://jewelleslayouts.blogspot.com/

The freebie download has expired. You can buy the book from Amber's Digital Candy store. HERE

CT Call!

I know it is early in my design career to be having a CT call, but I am going to need a CT very soon, so here is the call!




Please send me your applications! You can click the email me lady bug under my header to send your application.

Family Memories

I recently threw my hat into the ring for the Scrapmatters Design Star contest. I did not get past the first round, but Charmaine did! Go run over to her blog and tell her congrats!

Anyway, I did not make it, but I have this really cute mini to offer you!

Download from either 4shared or Digital Candy by clicking their names.

Please let me know what you think, and of course, email me or link me your layouts and I will put them in my weekly layout post!

Domestic Goddess

This week's challenge was a CHALLENGE! The kit had to be about me. I much rather make cute kits to scrap things about my son, so this was really hard! But I LOVE the way my "me" layout came out, so my efforts weren't totally in vain.

If you like to bake, or you enjoy rich papers, this is the kit for you!

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This kit contains:
10 paper
5 Solids
5 Patterned (3 diamond, 1 striped, 1 lyric-ed)

12 Elements
1 frame
1 wavy ribbon
1 word art
2 kitchen appliances
1 Tea Cup
1 Saucer
5 yummy baked goods (pictures are of items I actually baked. )

Download from 4shared
Elements
Papers

Or from Digital Candy
Elements
Papers

Enjoy!

Here is the LO I made with it:



I want to see your layouts! If you ever do one from my kit, please either email me from the lady bug link at the top of my blog, or comment with a link to your blog. I will post in my end of week kit review!

I am not going to be around this week. My Scrapland BFF is coming to visit! Charmaine lives in Washington and she is coming down to California for the week. But please check back, because I have VERY exciting news coming!

And RUN over to Char's blog. She has a wonderful new freebie kit this week. AND she will have another one on Tuesday!

Also, don't forget to head over to Brownie Scraps to download the other Week 5 Free kits!

Links Expiring

Just a heads up, the links are coming down for

A Star Danced
Alton's Spring and
Let's Go Fly a Kite

On Monday at 11:00 PM, so if you are missing any pieces to these kits, grab them quick!

A Public Service Announcement

First off an apology. I did not get the extra elements done for Let's Go Fly A Kite. I will, but not today.

The reason why is this: I have a laptop with a teeny tiny hard drive. So I have always kept my scrapbooking and designing stuff on a portable external hard drive. Well, last Saturday I was finishing this kit, and my son climbed onto my lap and knocked my EHD to the hard wood floor. It died.

I lost EVERYTHING. All of my freebies I have ever downloaded, all of the kits I've paid for, and EVERY SINGLE LAYOUT I HAVE EVER DONE. Luckily, MOST of the LOs I've done, I have uploaded to Costco to print, so I can just order a CD of the jpeg files, but the editable PSD documents are gone. My last four layouts I did, I hadn't uploaded and I only made a quick page out of one of them. Luckily, I hadn't deleted my photos from my laptop yet, but I'd thought about it. I am soooo glad I had not done that yet.

I took my defunct EHD to my local computer guru, and he said I have to send it to one of those specialty places that charges an arm and a leg. I don't know what this means, but he said "it doesn't spin". Which roughly translated means, "Your EHD is fried, that will be $1,000 to set your files free."

So please back up your stuff. All of it. Back up your EHD. I don't want anyone to go through what I am going through. This whole week has been sureal for other reasons as well, but the EHD REALLY put me behind.

Let's Go Fly A Kite Paper Add-On

In this paper pack, 4 patterned, 3 distressed and torn solids.

I hope you are all enjoying this kit! Don't forget to send me your LOs when you use this kit, I will put it on my blog post this weekend!

I tried some new stuff on these papers, so please let me know what you think.

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Let's Go Fly A Kite Elements Add On

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I have to apologize, if you downloaded the first set of elements before this Tuesday afternoon, you should re-down load. Even though I quality checked the elements, some weird wonky grey lines showed up in the lady bug border on the striped lady bugs... I am so sorry!

Also, I decided to make this a full kit, so tomorrow there will be some REALLY fun papers, and on Friday some new elements! Make sure to come back to download them....

Tag! You're it!

Alton jumped queue and met Donald Duck for the first time on Katie Scott's birthday.

I was tagged by Julie, fellow Gingerscraps CT extraordinaire.

This is easy. Go to your photo folder. From the 6th Folder, display the 6th picture.... then go and tag 6 unwilling people to do the same. :) The post a note on their blog to let them know.

I tag Charmaine, Rose, Kathy, Stephanie, Sarah, and Belinda. Also, if you are still reading my blog because you haven't recently given up the internet for God or your family, consider yourself tagged too.

Let's Go Fly A Kite Elements

Here are the elements! I love these elements. So much that I made more than I was supposed to. :) So there were be an element add-on tomorrow, so make sure to come back for them. :)


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Let's Go Fly A Kite

This kit is my fourth in the Brownie Scraps Design Challenge.

Having a toddler who loves music has paid off in this colorful kit! My son LOVES Mary Poppins, and the palette for this kit reminded me of Burt's jacket during the chalk painting pictures scenes.

This kit contains:
10 papers (6 patterned, 4 solid)
2 Border
3 Word Art
2 Frames
2 Kites
1 umbrella

There will be an add-on of the elements, so make sure you check my blog everyday for the newest installment of the kit. :)

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And lastly, if you make a layout with my kit, please comment and leave a link. I will post it for all to see! Thank you so much for everyone who sent me layouts last week!

More A Star Danced Layouts

I got these two layouts in an e-mail from a very nice lady named Karen. Isn't her grandson adorable?